Gas fires and their settings / [Sir Lawrence Weaver].

  • Lawrence Weaver
Date:
1929
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Gas fires and their settings / [Sir Lawrence Weaver]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    should have condemned it as impracticable. But the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and although there is only a four-inch hole in an iron plate im¬ mediately behind the un¬ derside of the mantelpiece, there is obviously so right¬ eous a draught in the old chimney that what appears a dangerous expedient does in fact work well. In the example designed by Mr. Lidbetter (Fig. 32), the broad handsome frame of the interior is a coal grate, in front of which was placed a gas hre of the sloping var¬ iety I am discussing. He did this as many architects do, on prudential grounds. The client needed a gas hre, but Fig. 31. At 9 Hanover Square, London, W. In a private office. Sloping type without interior frame Architect: Oliver Hill, F.R.I.B.A.